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Henry Ford’s moving assembly line makes cars affordable to the masses. Ford produces the first Model Tin 1908. In 1964, the sporty Ford Mustang rolls out at $2,368 and sets an all-time record for first-year sales of a new model.
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the moon. Apollo 11 astronauts
Neil Armstrong and BuzzAldrin plant the Americanflag238,000 miles from Earth as an estimated 600 million people on Earth watch on television.
first steam locomotive in 1804, but it is 1825 before railroads haul passengers.
above the beach at Kitty Hawk, N.C.
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Titanic, thought to be unsinkable, goes down afterhittinganiceberg in theNorthAtlantic. Ofthe more than 2,200 persons aboard the ship, about 1,500 perish.
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)- becomes America’s best-known motorcycle in the 1950s. Raw power and a distinctive rumble
appeal to rebels of the 1950s and 1960s and to business executives of the 1990s.
Orbital construction of the International Space Station (ISS) begins in 1998when space shuttleEndeavor crew members connect the station’s first two sections. ISS is to become the largest cooperative space mission in history.
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Freeways change the nature and pace of travelinAmerica. In1956,President Eisenhower authorizes construction of the Interstate HighwaySystem. Bythe 1990s, this nationwide network includes more than 42,500 miles of highways.
provide a new way to get around in ever-more-crowded
cities. Theworld’s first underground railway opens in London in 1863, By 1904, NewYorkCity inaugurates its first rapid-transit subways.
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